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An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of…
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols.
London: printed by W.B. for Will. Hope, 1654
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Or Members in the sight of God.
Which are, 1. Either decreed so to be, as being elect from all eternity, though not yet born, or not yet called, Joh. 10. 16.
Or 2. Actually so already, and these are first either actual living Members, as being engrafted through Faith by the holy Spirit into Christ, and therefore grow in the power of holiness, Or 2. Actual dying Members, or decaying Members, that is, such as have not the feeling of the power of the quickening spirit in them, though they be truly engrafted into Christ, of this ⟨p. 139⟩sort are all those that are yet dead in their sins, till such time as they be again quickened, and regenerated.
Or 2. Actually so already, and these are first either actual living Members, as being engraffed through Faith by the holy Spirit into Christ, and therefore grow in the power of holiness, Or 2. Actual dying Members, or decaying Members, that is, such as have not the feeling of the power of the quickning spirit in them, though they be truly engraffed into Christ, of this ⟨p. 139⟩sort are all those that are yet dead in their sins, till such time as they be again quickned, and regenerated.